How to Add a new website in Google Analytics

Google Analytics is the most popular site analytics solution to track visitors and find the related data of how a user use your site.

This tutorial provides the steps to add a new website in Google Analytics. The STEPS are pretty easy in New UI.

STEP 1

Go to https://www.google.com/analytics/ and Click on the link “Start for free” with your Gmail account.

Log in by clicking on “Sign in to Analytics” if you are already signed in your browser.

STEP 2

Log in with your Gmail account and Click on “Admin” at the bottom left.

Here, You can

a) Create an account (category) for a list of websites
b) Create Property (website)
c) Create a view for additional tracking

STEP 3

Click on Create Account to start from the beginning or click “Create property” for your site.

STEP 4

Fill the details and Uncheck Data Sharing Settings option if you do not want to share these data with Google.

Now, Click on “Get Tracking ID”. Accept the Google Analytics Terms of Service.

STEP 5

Success.

Your Website tracking script is ready. You can simply paste it in Header or Footer script section available on Genesis > Theme Settings.

There was an old script which not use Google Tag Manager.

<script>
  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){
  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),
  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)
  })(window,document,'script','https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js','ga');

  ga('create', 'UA-XXXXXXXX-X', 'auto');
  ga('send', 'pageview');

</script>

Change UA-XXXXXXXX-X with yours.